the lost symbol by Dan Brown

                Although I have read and enjoyed the other two books in this series, this one did not pull it off. The first book of the series is “angels and demons” the second is the “Da Vinci code”. All three books have the same exact plot, and by the third book, it’s just annoying to read. I felt like this book was much too similar to the other two. I like Dan Brown’s writing but almost all of his books start off with a murder, then a really intelligent main character and usually some kind of assistant set off on a journey to find out who the murderer is. And this journey usually has an interesting twist, with lots of codes to crack and ancient mysteries. But it gets to be too repetitive. In my opinion this book was just an attempt to write another novel in the series and it used a lot of the same material as in the other books, just with more violence and more stuff going on as “fluff” to make up for the lack of originality.

                What I do like about these books though, is how they have interesting factual information. It shows that Dan Brown does a lot of research in order to write his books. And I learned a lot about different topics in each book. Angels and Demons was about antimatter, and the Da Vinci code was about the Mona Lisa and certain codes and stuff, and the lost symbol was about Free Masonry. And these books made me want to do more research on each topic. However this does not make up for the fact that the third book in the series was a failure and I really hope that Dan Brown does not write another book in this series, unless he can make it interesting.